7 month 33 long update

[fourfootreefer]

Hello all! The first seven months of my saltwater hobby has been quite a crash course. Last time I posted I had a BG chromis and an orange spot shrimp goby. I found a really good deal for a pair of black storm clowns for $80. I hadn't been quarantining and the clowns died of brooklynella and the chromis and goby got ick so I rehomed them and have been fishless for four months to remove. I thought I would dislike having no fish but I I've really liked the reduced maintenance and I now understand how much more important the screening process is. I've been corals slowly, currently I have (left to right) a naughty neon tentacle oullophyllia , green and red galaxea, neon green sinularia (hitchhiker on liverock), hammer coral, two toadstool leathers, acan, rock flower anemone, two zoas, red bowerbanki (sold to me as a scolymia but has three heads lol), LA Lakers turbinaria, branching GSP, yellow submarine favia, green hairy (ricordia?) mushrooms, xenia, and a duncan. Currently battling with dinoflagellate algae, which I have learned has a lot of differing care directions. I read this can be caused by bottomed out nitrate and phosphate so I started feeding reef roidz a few times weekly. I read that potassium might be needed if my nitrates and phosphates are bottomed out so if dinos last another month I will test and possibly dose.

Tomorrow I hope to pick up a lubbock fairy wrasse and begin the quarantine process. I am actually looking forward to this process as it makes me feel a bit more involved and less of an impulse.

Stuff has been growing and am so happy I came over to the dark side of aquariums.
P.S. Why does coralline grow like crazy on equipment but hardly on rockwork!!?

Happy reefing

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Hello all! The first seven months of my saltwater hobby has been quite a crash course. Last time I posted I had a BG chromis and an orange spot shrimp goby. I found a really good deal for a pair of black storm clowns for $80. I hadn't been quarantining and the clowns died of brooklynella and the chromis and goby got ick so I rehomed them and have been fishless for four months to remove. I thought I would dislike having no fish but I I've really liked the reduced maintenance and I now understand how much more important the screening process is. I've been corals slowly, currently I have (left to right) a naughty neon tentacle oullophyllia , green and red galaxea, neon green sinularia (hitchhiker on liverock), hammer coral, two toadstool leathers, acan, rock flower anemone, two zoas, red bowerbanki (sold to me as a scolymia but has three heads lol), LA Lakers turbinaria, branching GSP, yellow submarine favia, green hairy (ricordia?) mushrooms, xenia, and a duncan. Currently battling with dinoflagellate algae, which I have learned has a lot of differing care directions. I read this can be caused by bottomed out nitrate and phosphate so I started feeding reef roidz a few times weekly. I read that potassium might be needed if my nitrates and phosphates are bottomed out so if dinos last another month I will test and possibly dose.

Tomorrow I hope to pick up a lubbock fairy wrasse and begin the quarantine process. I am actually looking forward to this process as it makes me feel a bit more involved and less of an impulse.

Stuff has been growing and am so happy I came over to the dark side of aquariums.
P.S. Why does coralline grow like crazy on equipment but hardly on rockwork!!?

Happy reefing

Tank looks like it is doing great!